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Annex B Useful reference material
Policy
Aiming for Excellence: Modernising Social Work Services in Scotland 1999
The White Paper sets out the proposals to strengthen the protection of children and vulnerable adults and to make sure high quality services are provided. The Scottish Commission for the Regulation of Care is an independent regulator set up for this purpose.
A Framework for Maternity Services in Scotland
The framework sets out clearly and explicitly the maternity service that should be offered across Scotland. It will inform and enable local action in response to local conditions and challenges the NHS to provide an essentially community based, midwife managed service.
www.scotland.gov.uk/library3/health/ffms-00.asp
Implementing a Framework for Maternity Services in Scotland - Overview Report
This report is the result of the short-life Expert Working Group on Acute Maternity Services ( EGAMS) which examined how the principles of the Framework for Maternity Services should be applied.
www.scotland.gov.uk/library5/health/ifms-00.asp
Regulating the Independent Healthcare Sector
The Scottish Executive Policy Position Paper of November 2000 sets out proposals for modernising regulation of the independent healthcare sector.
Our National Health 2000
The health plan aims to improve Scotland's health and close the health gap between rich and poor, restoring the NHS as a national service and improving care and standards.
Partnership for Care 2003
The white paper builds on 'Our National Health' and moves on to develop certain key issues. The paper sees patients and national standards as key drivers of change in the Health Service. It outlines ways in which the redesign, integration and quality of services can be systematically progressed, and it seeks a step change in approach to health improvement as an essential component.
The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child
The Convention is not a law but a code that the Government signed up to in 1991. It recognises that young people under 18 in Scotland do have rights. These rights must be given fairly, and children and young people must be kept safe and well, and able to take part in society.
Other Useful References
Board of the Faculty of Radiologists. The Royal College of Radiologists (1995).
Charter for Children in Hospital. National Association for Welfare of Children in Hospital (Scotland) 1991.
Clinical Pathology Accreditation (2000). Standards for the Medical Laboratory.
Clinical Pharmacy in the Hospital Pharmaceutical Service: A Framework for Practice. NHSiS Scotland CRAG July 1996.
Clinical Standards Board for Scotland Report on Schizophrenia (January 2001).
CNORIS. Clinical Negligence and Other Risks Indemnity Scheme. Healthcare Risk Management Standards.
CSBS, Healthcare Associated Infection ( HAI) Control Standards. December 2001.
CRAG report (1995). Nursing Observations of acutely ill psychiatric patients in hospital: A Good Practice Statement.
Department of Health (2000). Comprehensive Critical Care Report.
Department of Health (2000). Resuscitation Policy.
Department of Health. Reference Guide to Consent for Examination or Treatment (June 2001).
ECT Guidelines: Royal College of Psychiatrists.
Expert Group on Acute Maternity Services - Reference Report. Scottish Executive (Dec 2002).
www.scotland.gov.uk/library5/health/egas-00.asp
General Medical Council. Seeking patients' consent: the ethical considerations (1998).
General Medical Council. Withholding and withdrawing life prolonging treatment - Good practice in decision making (2002).
Guidelines for the Safe and Secure Handling of Medicines. Department of Health, Professor R Duthie. September 1998.
Guidelines for the Safe Use of Cytotoxic Chemotherapy in the Clinical Environment. Association of Scottish Trust Chief Pharmacists. August 2000.
Healthcare Associated Infection ( HAI) Control, CSBS. December 2001.
Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority Code of Practice, 5th edition (April 2001).
Independent Health Care Association (2001). Guidance on the Care of Children receiving care in the Independent Sector Acute Hospitals.
Ionising Radiation Act (1999).
Medicines Ethics and Practice - A Guide for Pharmacists. Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain.
Mental Health (Scotland) Act 1984: The Stationery Office.
Mental Welfare Commission (1998). Restraint of Residents with Mental Impairment in Care Homes and Hospitals. Edinburgh: Mental Welfare Commission.
Patient Group Directions NHSiS HDL (2001)7.
www.nes.scot.nhs.uk/pgds/index.htm
Regulation of Care (Scotland) Act 2001 and associated regulations.
www.scotland.gov.uk/health/standardsandsponsorship
Royal College of Anaesthetists (1999). Guidelines for the Provision of Anaesthetic Services.
Royal College of General Practitioners and Royal National Institute for Deaf People: Guidance for GPs on communication with deaf and hard of hearing patients (November 2004). Issued jointly by RCGP and RNID this guidance is aimed at all staff in the primary health care team.
Royal College of Pathologists. Guidelines for the retention of tissues and organs at post-mortem (March 2000).
Royal College of Surgeons of England (2000). Children's Surgery - a First Class Service.
Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain (2001). The Administration and Control of Medicines in Care Homes.
Report of Short-life Working Group on ICU and HDU issues. Better Critical Care. Health Department, Scottish Executive (2000).
Resuscitation Joint statement on decisions relating to cardiopulmonary resuscitation from the British Medical Association, the Resuscitation Council ( UK) and the Royal College of Nursing (January 2002).
Resuscitation Council ( UK). CPR Guidelines for clinical practice and training in hospitals. (2000).
Resuscitation Council ( UK). Adult Advanced Life Support. Resuscitation Guidelines (2005).
Scottish Executive Health Department Letter HDL (2000) 22 November 2000 Resuscitation Policy.
Standards for Maternity Services. NHS Quality Improvement Scotland. Forthcoming 2003.
UKCC Guidelines for Professional Practice (1996). 24
NMC Code of Professional Conduct (June 2002).
NMC Guidelines for Records and Record Keeping (April 2002).
NMC Guidelines for the Administration of Medicines (April 2002).
UKCC Standards for PREP (1995).
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